we previously had this thread but it was lost in a sitewide crash. kind of fortuitous, given all the new people!
anyways, i’m interested in how you describe yourself politically but also why you do so, and/or how you came to the beliefs that you did. be as brief or lengthy as you want in answering that.
additionally, as a preface: i would like this to be a generally non-judgemental thread and i think this community is more than capable of that, so please respect that idea.[1] in general, you are not obliged to justify to myself or anyone else why you believe what you do.
exceptions, obviously, go for bigotry or intolerant beliefs that would be otherwise incompatible with the community’s ethos. bluntly if you’re a transphobe or something like that this is not the community for you. ↩︎
I think that the obvious ones are obvious. I think that rights for lgbtq people are possible to settle in the immediate future. Abortion too. Those big issues are major reasons that the right has become largely unpalatable for people in general.
The most major reason for me is that the difference in wealth is growing. And I think many voters on the right would agree with that but haven’t identified that the right is for the rich getting richer. So while I don’t believe the democrats will fix much, it needs to be a race between them and a more left leaning party.